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William (“Bugly”) Brookfield has been performing live since 1972 before leaving high school (in 1974). After performing on electric guitar for a cabaret band, he became a solo entertainer as a singer and guitarist in 1975. In 1976, while performing at the Lakeside Inn in Vernon he discovered an abandoned piano in a closet, and purchased it from the Lakeside owner Joe Keenan, for $300. William subsequently learned the piano and performed at various venues throughout the 80’s and 90’s -- including engagements at Chateau Whistler, the Queen of the North and a stint as pianist for Long John Baldry’s Band (1995).

The early 80’s however saw the arrival of drum machines, MIDI and pre-recorded MIDI sequences and many venues came to expect bigger sounds from their solo musicians. The problem with pre-recordings of any type however, is that they are just machines and not live, spontaneous, human performances. In the early nineties William developed a basic set of one-man-band performance systems. While MIDI is indeed used in these systems (to connect live to various synth modules) his performances are once again completely live. In all of the following systems the foot pedals are programmed to play drum sounds (not drum patterns), to switch between synthesizer setups (or systems) and to momentarily open various sound “windows.” The performance systems are as follows:

#1.Mellow,Pop, Blues
#2..Pop,Jazz, Blues
#3.Lively Piano Pop Rock/Blues *New for 2008*
#4.Heavy rock/Pop
#5.Classical/Orchestral

Samples & Links of Interest

 

This is an original musical score (Spell of the North) I produced in 2000.
The first music you hear, I performed using One Man Band Setup #1. (Mellow Pop/Ballad/Slow blues & Country) with my "sax" and an extra string line added afterwards (along with a screeching elk added by Hank!). In a live setting it is my singing that typically provides the foreground "solo" instead of the sax.